Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen

The evening is approaching, and the number of vehicles on major arterial roads is gradually increasing.Ke Baisha drove carefully, paying attention to the speedometer all the way, not to exceed the speed limit, and came to Kelunqiao Avenue again.When she reached the area where she had followed Mrs. Dioubei last time, she slowed down the car so that it came to a complete stop.She recalled the situation when she followed Mrs. Bei. She put the car into gear suddenly, refueled, and changed gears quickly. At the same speed, she assumed that Mrs. Bei's car was still in front, and went forward at full speed.

Ke Baisha turned left on the street where Mrs. North turned left last time on the avenue, and quickly came to the intersection. She turned here at the beginning, and there was no car in front of her, so she couldn't decide whether she turned left or right.Mrs. Ke stopped the car at the intersection.She looks left and right.She now discovered something that she had neglected at the beginning.The streets to the left and to the right are very long and cannot turn left or right.It takes two or three times the distance of ordinary streets before there is an intersection. Ke Baisha was thinking with her head.

If Mrs. North turned left from the avenue and went straight, Baisha would see her car ahead as soon as she turned the corner.Baisha's speed at the end wasn't too slow. As soon as she turned in, she saw that Mrs. Bei's car was no longer in sight, so Mrs. Bei must have turned right instead of turning left. Anyway, she must have turned.However, Baisha immediately turned right, backed up and turned left, and there were no cars on either side.It was impossible not to see Mrs. North's car on such a long road with no intersections on both sides. Of course, such a big car can't disappear in the air. Needless to say, there must be a place to go.Baisha tried to recall the situation at that time.

Deep in her subconscious mind, Baisha seemed to recall that when she turned from the avenue, she seemed to see someone standing in front of a garage door. At that time, Baisha was eager to rush to the intersection, and did not pay attention. She struggled to figure out where the garage was.Seems to be on the left side of the street. Baisha turned the car around and walked slowly along the street. The second house on the corner seemed to be 609 North Haugan Street.It's not a clue and probably doesn't even mean anything.But what Baisha thinks now is to get a share of so much money going in and out.She might give up nothing.

Betha parked the car, walked along the sidewalk, and rang the doorbell of the house.She heard the doorbell ringing inside the house. She waited fifteen seconds.Ring the bell again.There was no sound in the house. Bai Sha took a few steps back.Take a closer look at the exterior of the house.The house has an abandoned feel.All curtains are drawn.Dust had begun to gather on the doorsteps, on the threshold of the gate. Baisha was disappointed. He pressed the doorbell again with his thumb and began to watch the situation of the neighbors. A cloud hung low in the west, obscuring the sun.The dusk scene thus comes earlier.This day is the hottest of the season.Several children were playing in a yard across the street, an eight or nine-year-old girl and two little boys.

Baisha walked towards them.Who lives in the house opposite?she asked. the girl replied.Mr. Kou and Mrs. Kou live there. They don't seem to be home? The girl hesitated. The boy said: They went on vacation for ten days. The girl said: Mom said you can't tell strangers casually.There are a lot of break-ins now. Bai Sha smiled and said to them: I heard they want a taxi garage.do you know? No.They also have their own car, but they drive away. Thanks.Baisha said politely: I just look at the garage.I know they want to rent out. She stepped back, more confidently this time, across the street, up the drive, and out in front of the garage.The children in the courtyard across the street looked at her back, and after a while they started playing again. When Baisha reached the garage door, they had already completely forgotten about her.

Bai Sha pushed the garage door sideways, she thought the garage should be locked. With the help of pulleys and oil, the garage door opened a few inches silently and lightly. With a little more effort, Baisha opened the garage a few more inches.She has no intention of going in. She saw a car parked in the garage. The tail of the car turned towards her.That tail looks familiar.Baisha looked at the license plate. It's Mrs. Bei's car and license plate. Bai Sha went in through the garage door and walked to the right side of the car. The daylight near dusk, coming in through the garage door that opens to the east and the north window, is enough to see everything in the garage clearly.However, people who have just come in take at least two or three minutes to get their eyes used to it.

Baisha naturally thought that there would be no one in the car.She opened the right front door of the car, and began to sit inside to look at the car's instrumentation.Her foot hit something.She lowered her head to look, her eyes had already adjusted, he saw a thigh wearing stockings, it was a corpse, half on the car seat, half on the car floor, half sandwiched between the steering wheel and the car seat. At this time, Baisha's nose smelled the faint breath of death. Bai Sha got out of the car immediately, and began to want to get out of the garage.Thinking about it, she finds the garage light switch and turns the garage light on.

The garage light is a pendant light in the middle of the garage.The light is obscured by the roof and shines indirectly on the corpse.Baisha knew that apart from this opportunity, she would never have another chance to investigate the scene. The corpse wore a white gingham jacket that White Sha remembered very well.Behind the sunglasses are dead fish-like eyes, but from the front, the head of the corpse looks a bit like an owl because of the sunglasses. The light from the chandelier penetrated through the windshield, allowing Baisha to see a white piece of paper lying on the ground next to the corpse.

But Baisha picked up the note and began to read it. It has typeface on it.Baisha preliminarily saw that this was from the same Remington portable typewriter as the anonymous letter. I have to drive down Simoya Drive.Pretend to have no doubts, never look back, but look more often from the corner of your eye in the rearview mirror.If you are being followed, try to wait for a red light on Dawson Street, but keep going at a normal speed.I'm going to turn left on North Hogan Street North Hogan is the next street down Dawson Street.The third house on the corner is number 609, and the garage door will be wide open.I'm going to drive into the garage and get the car out of the garage.Everything must be in accordance with the instructions in the letter, and there must be no mistakes.

Baisha put the note back to its original place.She leaned towards the female corpse, touched the corpse's lips with her thumb, held back her breath, and parted her lips. Mrs. North is missing a removable denture bridge on her lower right gum.Two of the white teeth had already been pulled out. Ke Baisha exited the car.She closed the garage door and walked up to her car on her heels.The sound of children playing happily across the street came to her ears.What else to do now besides call the police? What a lifetime of bad luck!As she got into the car, she muttered.